I'm not a fan of [discussion], are there alternatives we could use?

Question

I'm not a huge fan of the discussion tag. There are only three questions tagged with it.

• Is the idea of crowd-sourcing moderation duties a reason to prevent automated processes from helping?: This is using the tag like the Meta tag discussion
• How can I encourage people to use the (secondary) chat feature on my community's software?: This is using the tag when asking how to encourage discussions
• Do long-term "icebreaker" threads foster quality discussion?: This is also asking how to encourage discussion

How would you like to see this tag utilized? Or, can we come up with something more relevant than "discussion" as a tag?

I realize the irony of how this question is tagged too.

Answer 1

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It seems like there are multiple kinds of discussion that are on topic:

• Meta-discussion: exactly what we're doing here! We're discussing policies for our site. We could use the tag rules-and-policies and/or feedback. If those tags don't suffice, we could create a site-discussion which lacks the confusion/baggage of the discussion tag.
• Talking it out: a form of conflict resolution where the involved parties discuss the prevalent issues. Would fall under conflict-resolution.
• Discussion as Content: where the actual content involves discussion. Relevant tags include content-curation or any platform tags (e.g. reddit).

The main use you mention in your post falls under the first category. In this case, a merge (not synonym) from discussion → site-discussion is all that is required (along with removing this tag from the first question). I'm saying no for a synonym for discussion because I'd personally like to see that tag nuked and gone from the system/cache.